Meniscus

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Description It doesn’t occur all that often. A pendulum swings and the intended meaning of an image slips silently out the door. When this happens we are left in an odd circumstance of duality, knowing what we knew before and having to reconcile this with our new interpretations of an image. This is the basis of meniscus; the position of trying to find the median of these two diametrically opposed states of knowledge.

Sampled from the Vancouver Public Library’s collection of Leonard Franks’ Board of Trade photographs, these manipulated images play with the idea of keeping your head above water in the often slippery and overwhelming position of trying to interpret visual information.